Working with German corpora / / edited by Bill Dodd ; with a foreword by John Sinclair

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777015403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, : University of Birmingham University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-29477-2; 9786611294779; 1-84714-339-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 299 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): DoddBill <1950-> (Bill J.)
• Disciplina: 438.00285
• Soggetti: German language - Data processing; Corpora (Linguistics); Computational linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the relevance of corpora to German studies / Bill Dodd -- Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism : Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case / Gordon J.A. Burgess -- When Ost meets West : a corpus-study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification / Bill Dodd -- German be- verbs revisited : using corpus evidence to investigate valency / Piklu Gupta -- A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative propositions / Randall L. Jones -- Translators at play : exploitations of collocational norms in German-English translation / Dorothy Kenny -- "Die schöne Geschichte" : a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder / Ann Lawson -- Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management German / April Mackison -- The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project / Peter Roe -- An electric corpus of Early New High German / Jonathan West -- Rights and obligations in legal contracts : corpus evidence / Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen -- Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s / Nic Witton.
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in this volume, written by Germanists from Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia, illustrate the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole and the rich diversity of work currently being undertaken. A detailed introduction explains basic concepts, methods, and applications of corpus-based work.